But considering the choises given, I've voted McLaughlin: does anyone have that quote of Zappa saying that "a guy who manipulates his guitar as a machine gun..."?

You bet! Here it is:

Quote:

A person woud be a moron not to appreciate McLaughlin's technique. The guy has certainly found out how to operate a guitar as if it were a machine gun. But I'm not always enthusiastic about the lines I hear or the ways in which they're used. I don't think you can fault him, though, for the amount of time and effort it must have taken to play an instrument that fast. I think anybody who can play that fast is just wonderful. And I'm sure 90% of teenage America would agree, since the whole trend in the business has been "faster is better."

But considering the choises given, I've voted McLaughlin: does anyone have that quote of Zappa saying that "a guy who manipulates his guitar as a machine gun..."?

You bet! Here it is:

Quote:

A person woud be a moron not to appreciate McLaughlin's technique. The guy has certainly found out how to operate a guitar as if it were a machine gun. But I'm not always enthusiastic about the lines I hear or the ways in which they're used. I don't think you can fault him, though, for the amount of time and effort it must have taken to play an instrument that fast. I think anybody who can play that fast is just wonderful. And I'm sure 90% of teenage America would agree, since the whole trend in the business has been "faster is better."

But considering the choises given, I've voted McLaughlin: does anyone have that quote of Zappa saying that "a guy who manipulates his guitar as a machine gun..."?

You bet! Here it is:

Quote:

A person woud be a moron not to appreciate McLaughlin's technique. The guy has certainly found out how to operate a guitar as if it were a machine gun. But I'm not always enthusiastic about the lines I hear or the ways in which they're used. I don't think you can fault him, though, for the amount of time and effort it must have taken to play an instrument that fast. I think anybody who can play that fast is just wonderful. And I'm sure 90% of teenage America would agree, since the whole trend in the business has been "faster is better."

...and please listen to the tiny hint of sarcasm in zappa's voice...

Thanks! Here is some more:

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Interviewer:John McLaughlin?

Frank Zappa:I met John. I think he's a great guitar player and I think that he's probably done a lot to educate American audiences to some aspects of Eastern music that they wouldn't have come into contact with before. We did a tour with McLaughlin and old Mahavishnu, we did 11 concerts with them.

_________________The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

Huh, didn't know Jeff Beck was dead. But, if he were indeed still alive, I'd vote for him. Nobody gets as much out of a note as Jeff.

_________________Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Vernon Reid, Bill Frisell, Paco de Lucia, Buckethead, Tsijiz Munoz. Jimmy Rosenberg, Lobi Traore. Djelimady Tounkara, and also Ryo Kawasaki haven't heard him in years but he could play anything on a guitar.

When it comes to McLaughlin, I doubtless prefer his more restrained and more elegant, subtle playing on "In a Silent Way" by Miles Davis, as opposed to the noodly gymnastics he whips out for most of the time. What FZ did was way opposed to the widdly wank you could expect from a lot of shredders and fusioneer noodlers. He could play fast, but he never made 300 notes per minute his motto. He would invent new melodies with his solos, rather than rely on tried and true scale run modus operandi so typical of shredders and fusioneers. I wish more guitarists were like that: that they would use manual dexterity solely for getting a point across, as opposed to shitting out craploads of notes while saying nothing worthwhile except "look at me, I can shred fast!". Meh.

_________________There are groups that tend to dazzle a drug-stupefied audience into submission

Each one of these are legends in my opinion and should not have been overlooked in your poll.

_________________Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?''
Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...''

Easy for him to say, being possibly one of the most talented and under-rated guitarplayers ever...

_________________Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?''
Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...''

_________________Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?''
Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...''

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